The A-list cause du jour—the boycott of one Dolce & Gabbana international house of fashion, thanks to one of the designer's statements on gay adoption—is devolving into a hilariously arch Twitter flame war.
The difficulté began when designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana—partners in business, as well as former bedmates—gave a recent interview to Italian magazine Panorama, where they broached the topic of adoption and IVF in a, shall we say, indelicate manner. The offending quotes, via NPR:
In it, they said (translations via Britain's The Telegraph):
"We oppose gay adoptions. The only family is the traditional one." "You are born to a mother and a father — or at least that's how it should be," Dolce said. "I call children of chemistry, synthetic children. Rented uterus, semen chosen from a catalog." Gabbana: "The family is not a fad. In it there is a supernatural sense of belonging."
Freedom for me not to buy shit I can't afford and frown disapprovingly through the internet ~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
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17. "It's a very traditional italian thing to say... " In response to Reply # 6
They're machismo and chauvinism and 'family values' attitudes knows no bounds, so much so that even two gays could come out and say this sort of thing.
So i'm sure it didn't seem extreme or controversial to them.
9. "RE: Dolce and Gabbana done set it off: we oppose gay adoption/synthetic ..." In response to Reply # 0
They must be die hard catholics or something... Some weird shit to come out against.. synthetic children ?? LMAO, I've never heard anyone refer to IVF as that...
blkprinceMD05 Member since Nov 29th 2004 41323 posts
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15. "those jail birds need to stfu. But seriously everyone is entitled to the..." In response to Reply # 0
Opinions, I imagine they may be some of those gays that think the "best part" is not having to worry about kids or they have some self hate issues but anywho that's on them
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stand ur ground, believe in urself, believe in love, prepare urself for love, remove the negativity from ur life, and accept the love u kno u deserve
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